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Unfortunately he was also very hard of hearing, which led 

 to rather a catastrophe one day. There was a wire clothes- 

 line about the height of a horseman's chin just in front 

 of a fence which the baronet was going to jump. With 

 his eye fixed on the place he had chosen, he was quite 

 oblivious of the wire. In vain those behind him, who saw 

 it, shouted to him ; he never heard a sound, and, going 

 on, was swept clean out of his saddle. Though quite an 

 old man at the time, he was not much hurt. He was out 

 the first time hounds found in Brailsford Gorse, and ran 

 over Atlow Whin. 



There was no more noted man in his day with the 

 Hoar Cross Hounds than Mr. Trevor Yates, and yet 

 nothing very much can be learned about him. He lived 

 at Sapperton, where he kept a pack of harriers, and also 

 at one time hunted Mr. Okeover's harriers at Okeover, 

 He was practically one of the staff" with the Hoar Cross 

 Hounds, wore a huntsman's pink frock-coat and cap, 

 knew every hound in the pack, acted as a supernumerary 

 whipper-in, and sometimes mounted one of the Leedhams. 

 This was probably with a view to selling the animal, 

 which was most likely being ridden on trial, as Mr. Yates, 

 in addition to farming, made a nice little income by 

 breaking and selling young horses. Some of his cracks 

 made as much as three hundred guineas. Mr. Arthur 

 Yates, the famous steeplechase rider, owner, and trainer 

 of steeplechase horses, is his nephew. 



Having got thus far in the notice of a well-known 

 Meynell character, the writer wrote to Mr. Copestake of 

 Barton Blount, who very kindly furnished the following 

 copy of an obituary notice which appeared in the Derby 

 Mercury, April 7th, 1880 : — 



TBIE LATE TREVOR YATES, ESQ. 



Mr. Trevor Yates, of Sapperton, who died on the 19th day of March, 1880, 

 at the age of seventy-seven years, was almost the last of a class who combined 

 the good qualities of an old English gentleman with the position of a tenant 

 farmer. The son of Harry Yates of Sapperton, he succeeded to the farm long 

 held by his family, under the Squires of Snelston, upon the death of his mother, 



